• DocumentCode
    712411
  • Title

    First 105 Gb/s low power, small footprint PAM-8 impedance-engineered TOSA with InP MZ-modulator and customized driver IC using predistortion

  • Author

    Gomez Saavedra, B. ; Wolf, N. ; Lei Yan ; Meuer, C. ; Choi, J.H. ; Velthaus, K.-O. ; Gruner, M. ; Schubert, C. ; Bach, H.-G. ; Schell, M.

  • Author_Institution
    Fraunhofer-Inst. fur Nachrichtentechnik, Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Berlin, Germany
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    22-26 March 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    A small footprint, low power 105Gb/s PAM-8 TOSA with InP-based/Mach-Zehnder modulator and a customized SiGe differential driver with a modulation power of 3.23pJ/bit is demonstrated. Predistortion is applied to compensate for non-linearities of both devices.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; electro-optical modulation; indium compounds; integrated optics; nonlinear optics; optical communication equipment; InP; InP MZ-modulator; InP-based/Mach-Zehnder modulator; customized driver IC; device nonlinearities; low power; predistortion; small footprint PAM-8 impedance-engineered TOSA; Decision support systems; Modulation; Transceivers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2015
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7121761